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Potter’s Wheel Initiation Course (14h)
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Potter’s Wheel Initiation Course (14h)

5-8 May

9:30am-1pm or 2pm-5:30pm
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Description

Are you curious to work with clay and to know the secrets of pottery?
Loulé Criativo offers you this possibility with the Potter’s Wheel Initiation Course, under the guidance of the experienced Ricardo Lopes.


Program

Objetivos:

The aim is for students to learn, understand, and master the fundamental steps of shaping on the potter’s wheel, with a view to developing skills in the field of ceramics


Course Content:

  • Basic shaping: ball and thumb techniques
  • Potter’s Wheel: Introduction and Overview. Presentation and demonstration of the methodology.
  • Preparation, Shaping, and Finishing.
  • Basic forms, open and closed, bowls; cylinders and small bulbous forms.

 

Value

Level 1 = 160€ (materials and firing included)

Level 2 – 170€ (materials and firing included)

 

Participants

Maximum of 7 participants

 

Languages

English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Requirements

Ages 16 and older

Lectured By

Ricardo Lopes
With a degree in Marine Biology and Fisheries, he began making ceramics in 1998 in a self-taught manner. He completed the Creative Ceramics Course at CENCAL in 2004.

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